On To The Next One

On To The Next One Lyrics

[Intro: Swizz Beatz]
I got a million ways to get it (uh-huh, geah)
... Choose one (choose one, hey)Ay, bring it back, bring it back (uh-huh)
Now double your money and make a stack
I'm on to the next one, on to the next one
I'm on to the next one, on to the next one
I'm on to the next one, on to the next one
I'm on to the next one, on to the next one
(Hold up) Freeze! Ay!
Somebody bring me back the money please, hey

About “On To The Next One”

“On to the Next One” is the fourth single from Jay-Z’s 2009 twelfth studio album The Blueprint 3. It peaked at #37 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #5 on the Billboard Rap Songs chart. The song’s themes mirror, and best accomplish, the purpose of the album: to showcase Hov as the major trendsetter in hip-hop.

Produced by long-time Hov collaborator Swizz Beatz, the song contains a vocal sample of the words “under the spotlight” (manipulated by Swizz to sound like “on to the next one”) as well as a background synthesizer sound from the live version of Justice’s song “D.A.N.C.E.”. It was one of the last tracks recorded for BP3:

That was last minute. Jay was like, ‘I’m wrapping the album up, what’s up?’ I was like, ‘Listen, I’ve got one track. I’m just going to send this one track and that’s it … It already had the hook on it when I gave it to him. I don’t like just sending beats, that’s giving artists too much time not to fuck with it. He called me from London going crazy, ‘This is a hit. Wait till you hear the verses on this. This is fucking outta here. Thank you, I knew you had something. I’m gone.’ And that was it!

“OTTNO” won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group at the 53rd Grammy Awards, marking Jay’s 13th Grammy Award and Swizz' first Grammy win. In addition, at the 2010 ceremony Jay-Z became the first artist to have all four singles from one album win six Grammy Awards in their respective category.

The track’s video premiered on January 1, 2010 on New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly, making it the first music video of the decade.

What have the artists said about the song?

The track’s video was accused of featuring Satanic imagery. Swizz Beatz refuted these rumors, saying: “I don’t think about that. I know that’s a billion percent not true. The video displays another level of art and creativity from two great minds: the director and Jay, and myself, bringing the collaboration together. It’s no satanic ways around me and that’s for sure. I’m with Jay – I never see none of that stuff around him unless he’s hiding something, which I doubt. C'mon, man. That’s silly stuff. That stuff you don’t even comment on; we on to the next one.”